Charlie Crist Still Trying to Get Elected to Office  Any Office

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Charlie Crist — who has run for office eight times in the past 25 years, winning half of the time — announced today that he is still in the market for an elected office in Florida. The former Republican governor lost a close gubernatorial race last year as a Democrat. A few years earlier, Crist lost a Senate race to Marco Rubio; he later wrote in a book about the election, “Winners have more friends than losersdo.”

Now the soon-to-be-perennial candidate is trying to win a Houseseat.

Crist — who told voters last year, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result” — originally said that he was taking an electoral break in 2016, but he either got antsy and bored or excited about a state Supreme Court decision that made his district, an open seat, far more favorable to Democrats than it once was. “Public service is in my heart,” he explained at his announcement. “I can’t help it. I guess that’s fairlyobvious.”